Data Sources
335+ indicators from 6 authoritative international organizations
Statistics of the World combines public institutional statistics, reviewed company-reported numerical facts and separately identified market observations. Definitions, units, source qualifiers and reuse terms remain attached to their data. Search the distinct catalogs or inspect country-level coverage and freshness.
Research and source evidence
The economic explorer keeps source definitions separate, with history charts, guarded country comparisons, saved browser workspaces and reproducible CSV/evidence downloads. Its complete transaction archive begins at SOTW activation; the initial cohort is a baseline. Acquisition timestamps do not establish original publisher releases or actual database commit availability.
Company financials use the SEC’s free company-facts and submissions APIs for reviewed issuers. Exact numerical strings, fiscal periods, units, filing dates and accessions remain intact. Source filings and taxonomy content have their own rights; numeric facts are kept separate from narrative content.
Sampled market history records forward pool states and perpetual midpoints with quality flags and source times. It does not infer earlier history, trade ticks or cash-security OHLC. Missing collection intervals and storage pauses remain visible.
1. IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO)
The IMF WEO is the gold standard for international macroeconomic data. It provides harmonized GDP, growth, inflation, unemployment, government debt, current account, and fiscal indicators for 193 countries, including estimates for the current year and projections 5 years forward.
Key indicators from IMF: GDP, GDP growth, GDP per capita, inflation, unemployment, government debt, GDP PPP.
2. World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI)
The WDI is the world's most comprehensive development database, covering 300+ indicators across health, education, environment, infrastructure, governance, trade, labor, demographics, and more. Data is compiled from national statistical agencies, UN agencies, and specialized organizations.
Key indicators from World Bank: population, life expectancy, CO2 emissions, fertility rate, poverty, inequality, education spending, health spending, FDI, trade.
3. WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO)
The WHO GHO provides health-specific indicators including disease prevalence, healthcare infrastructure, immunization rates, and cause-specific mortality. WHO data complements World Bank health indicators with more granular clinical and epidemiological measures.
4. OECD
Monthly and quarterly series for OECD economies: long-term government bond yields, harmonised unemployment, consumer prices, GDP growth, and business and consumer confidence.
5. United Nations
Population projections, trade statistics (COMTRADE), and SDG indicators from UN agencies.
6. European Central Bank
Daily euro foreign-exchange reference rates (about 30 currencies, EUR base) and the Governing Council meeting calendar. Reproduced with attribution; available free of charge from the ECB.
Market & Event Data Feeds
Beyond the statistical databases above, the markets, release-calendar, and prediction-market pages draw on these primary feeds:
- World Bank Commodity Price Data (Pink Sheet) — monthly commodity benchmark prices, CC BY 4.0. worldbank.org ↗
- Public onchain markets — SOTW calculates token-pool prices from Uniswap, Raydium and PancakeSwap state, and perpetual midpoints from Hyperliquid bids and asks. Each instrument retains its type, units, source time and quality status. These are distinct from linked cash securities, bullion benchmarks, official indices and official yields. Live onchain markets →
- Reviewed economic series — OECD, Eurostat, ILOSTAT, BIS, EIA Monthly Energy Review and World Bank Global Economic Monitor add GDP detail, inflation components, employment, trade, industrial production, energy and credit. Definitions, adjustments, national exceptions, reference periods and source qualifiers are retained; coverage varies. Economic data explorer →
- Native US statistics — The reviewed BLS definitions keep CPI and PPI indexes, CPS unemployment and participation rates, payroll employment, hourly earnings and job openings distinct. Source numbers, missing rows, footnotes and original API retrieval dates remain attached. Payroll jobs and vacancies are separate from employed people; monthly boundaries do not identify the actual survey dates. Native US research data →. BLS’s public-domain statement and API conditions support SOTW’s numerical reuse interpretation; the required API disclaimer and retrieval-date citation accompany downloads.
- Bank of Canada — rate-decision dates and scheduled publications from the Bank's official events feed; available free of charge from bankofcanada.ca. bankofcanada.ca ↗
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis — official release schedule for GDP, trade, and income data (US federal work, public domain). bea.gov ↗
- Polymarket — prediction-market probabilities shown on our predictions page. polymarket.com ↗
Data Licensing & Attribution
Reuse rights vary by provider and sometimes by dataset. IMF data follows the IMF Terms; World Bank data is generally available under CC BY 4.0 with dataset-specific exceptions; WHO data follows dataset-specific notices and terms, including attribution and third-party conditions. Cite the original provider and review the notice attached to the series you use — see our citation guide.